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...straw so that it can be unwrapped frugally and eaten over a period of time. It must keep up to six months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet...
...when he was an undergraduate: the first four notes of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations rearranged and transposed in various ways turn up in all kinds of music, both Western and non-Western. A four note tune may seem to be a weak and superficial thread with which to bind music of different cultures, but it's the kind of thread Bernstein likes. A considerable amount of musical analysis in subsequent lectures is based on just this sort of tune-hunting...
...they would ease a financial situation that threatens to be more devastating than the energy crisis. Rapidly increasing OPEC revenues, which only now reflect last year's price in creases, have mainly been shoveled into short-term investments, to the point where Western financial institutions are in a bind...
...must turn to Baraka's essay, written four years after this film was made, to find the glue that Bland needs to bind his loosely-constructed "unique suffering" argument together. Rather than ignoring the existence of a few competent white jazz musicians, Baraka admits that some white musicians, "originally Dixieland Jazz Band, Bix, etc. sought not only to understand that phenomenon of the Negro Music, but to appropriate it as a means of expression which they might utilize...
...President Ford last week unveiled his program to permit Viet Nam War evaders and deserters to earn their way back into U.S. society, he termed it "an act of mercy to bind the nation's wounds and to heal the scars of divisiveness." But the wounds bled anew. Leaders of veterans' organizations immediately denounced the plan as "a gross injustice" to those who had served, died, and suffered. Members of war resisters' groups assailed it as a "punitive" assault upon men who had been guilty only of "premature morality." Yet Ford's plan, an extremely complex...